Gemini 3.5 Flash

Releases

1. Jul 21

   Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

2. Jul 21

   Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Trends

• Offensive AI cyber risk moves from evaluations into the wild

Items

1. Jul 21

   Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber

   3.6 Flash costs $1.50/$7.50 per million tokens and uses 17% fewer output tokens than 3.5 Flash (49% vs 37% on DeepSWE), Flash-Lite runs at 350 tokens/sec for $0.30/$2.50, and 3.5 Flash Cyber is limited to governments and trusted partners; Google also confirmed Gemini 4 pretraining has begun.

2. May 19

   Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash

   The new default for the Gemini app and AI Mode beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on Terminal-Bench 2.1 (76.2%), GDPval-AA (1656 Elo), MCP Atlas (83.6%), and CharXiv Reasoning (84.2%) while running 4x faster than comparable frontier models; Gemini 3.5 Pro targets June.